The weekend beading starts NOOOOOOOWWWWWWW!

I think I will do something green

A yummie mix of sari silk ribbons - the colors ...
Green Coral beads ....
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Bracelet - Can't Keep It In

Bracelet for my best friend Caroline. A passionate and wonderful woman. So wise, so good and so marvellous in all possible ways.

Materials:

Red silk strands from recycled saris - Objects & Elements

2 enameled flowers & 3 enameled round beads - Barbara Lewis, Painting with Fire

Green & bordeaux enameled shiny ceramic bead - Bijoux Beads

Black beach stone toggle - IhsBlack

Waxed linen cord & chain - Panduro Sweden

Some seed beads and antiqued metal beads

Cat Stevens - Can't Keep It In

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Bracelet - Blue Rondo a la Turk

I've tried a for me new style. And I was inspired by the ABS Color Challenge. Might participate with this one. Anyway, this is the first piece I am naming after a piece of music. It has been an idea of mine for a while now ... to name all my jewellery after music I like ... and voilá ... this is the premier one. I have also added a link below so you can listen and see for yourself. Enjoy!

Materials:

Handmade goldy-brownish bead in polymer clay - Malin de Koning

Beach stone toggle - made by Kara at IhsBlack on Etsy

Three strands of silk from recycled saris - Objects and Elements

Silvery circular chain - YukiDesigns on Etsy

Waxed linen cord, metal buttons and lilac ceramic bead - Panduro

Check this out: Dave Brubeck Quartet plays Blue Rondo a la Turk live on an American TV show. They are flying on a magic carpet over LA whilst playing. In the end they get a ticket from a police officer ...

3 Bats for Kata is almost ready!

I am very happy now!

Almost there!

Slowly but shurely!

Now we are in the middle of march. And it all started way back in the beginning of december. I knew then I wanted to do this necklace for my friend Kata. The 3 adorable bats are from Green Girl Studios. I ordered them from Fusion Beads just before X-mas, and they arrived at my home just after New Years'.

But I didn't have any idea at the time of how I would hang them. Upside down of course! But would they sit on a bulky chain, a thin chain, a beaded strand, a braided leather cord, a velvet ribbon or what? No, I wasn't pleased with any of those ideas. Too hard, too unbalanced, too robust and so on. And what colors?

And although I knew they would have the best place in the world just under Kata's neck pit I wanted them to have the perfect environment all in all. I wanted it to feel like the bats has it cosy where they are sitting, because they do look so content. And you have to believe that. Slowly but shurely the final design has taken form. The black Dupioni silk ribbon from Ornamentea arrived last week. And last night I sat for 2 hours trying many various ways to hang the bats so that they would sit the way I want. It wasn't the easiest considering the way they are constructed with a very big hole right through. How would I do to create a strong reliable connection to the silk, but yet it should seem the bats are actually kind of holding on to the ribbon with their feet. It musn't be lots of wire or string there to disturb the illusion. When I know what I am looking for expressionwise I do not want to give up on that idea. I think I have found it now!

Just a few more details left and it will all be finished! I have all the material I need at home, which is great.